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Native Memory Project coming to Crook County Museum

The Crook County Museum invites you to come and experience the work of the Native Memory Project on Fri., Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. The Native Memory Project serves to preserve the stories and survival teachings of the past in order to carry them into future generations.

Darrah Perez-Good Voice Elk (Blackfeet, Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone), Byron Good Voice Elk (Lakota) and Yufna Soldier Wolf (Northern Arapaho), Wind River Organizer with the Wyoming Outdoor Council will be visiting with us from the Wind River Reservation. The event is free to the public.

Darrah Perez-Good Voice Elk (Blackfeet/Eastern Shoshone/Northern Arapaho) will be sharing traditional native plant medicines and how Great Plains tribes made use of them. Her presentation will feature the use of teas, such as peppermint, sage and cedar teas.

Teas were widely used by the Indians of the Plains as medicine to heal the body. Chokecherry gravy is another medicine widely used by the tribes of the Plains.

These medicines were all important to the health of the people. Today, we are on the onset of losing this knowledge and we are here to help others to remember.

By opening ancestral memory, we can in fact heal our communities. Samples will be provided during the presentation.

Byron Good Voice Elk (Lakota Sioux) will share traditional stories and talk about the effects of historical trauma being seen today. He will tell the creation story of the sun and the moon and of how love came to be on this Earth. He will talk about how trauma continues to affect the people on reservations today.

Yufna Soldier Wolf (Northern Arapaho) will present on the effects of the native boarding school era and the work to preserve the Traditional Teachings of the Northern Arapaho to begin the healing journey of the community. She will speak on behalf of the Boarding School era, the work she has done to help her community begin the healing journey and what she does now to help preserve the teachings and ways of the Northern Arapaho people, and build a bridge of understanding to offer forgiveness and respect toward each other for generations to come.

She currently works for the Wyoming Outdoor Council giving tours of the Red Desert.

The Native Memory Project is here to preserve the stories and survival teachings passed on into generations. To find out more about The Native Memory Project please visit: https://nativememoryproject.org/

This program is sponsored by Crook County Museum Foundation and the Crook County Historical Society.

 
 
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